Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's family men. This week Selective Service opened another replacement pool. It rescinded its blanket deferment of men between 38 and 45, ordered them classified like younger men. Well knowing that these military oldsters are not suitable for frontline services, Selective Service may still use some for rear-area duty. Meanwhile it hoped that others would take to the farms, fill out another manpower...
...trapped Axis animal was still strong, it had already mauled its enemy and would maul him again. Nevertheless the trap was slowly closing. At the fronts, along the supply lines in the rear (see p. 21 ), the Allies pressed on, knowing full well that victory in Tunisia by summer may mean invasion of southern Europe by fall...
That ended that. The stunned audience recovered in time to applaud. A solid, mild-mannered, aging gentleman in the rear of the basement rose and bowed. It was the first bow Julius Klorfein had ever taken...
Germans fear an Allied blow at Norway. A German military writer, retired Rear Admiral Richard Gadow-the first German to disclose, in 1935, that the Nazis were building submarines-wrote recently in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: "A successful Allied invasion of Norway would be a catastrophe for Germany. Norway in the hands of the enemy would mean great economy in the protection of Anglo-Saxon convoys . . . and would constitute a dangerous threat to the Finnish northern flank"-to say nothing, eventually, of the German northern flank...
...French submarine coast from Brest to the south. The Germans themselves might take the great gamble of trying to knock Britain out. Success would not win the war for Germany (there would still be Russia), but the same sort of reasoning which impelled Hitler to turn on his Russian rear in 1941 might impel him to turn on his British rear...